NGA Purchases Remainder of NEXTMap USA Dataset

The delivery order is the sixth purchase of NEXTMap data from Intermap for the combined purchase of approximately 8 million square kilometers of data or 3.1 million square miles of the contiguous United States and Hawaii. The Company has been supplying NGA with data since the program's inception in 2005.

The order of high-resolution datasets includes digital surface models depicting the earth's surface (including cultural features such as vegetation, buildings, and roads), digital terrain models displaying the bare earth (with all cultural features except roads digitally removed), and orthorectified radar images (grayscale images that accentuate topographic features). The elevation data (DEM) which is accurate to 1-meter vertically and posted every 5 meters will enable a variety of solutions for, simulation and training on military bases, environmental and geographic planning to mitigate the impact of military activities, and disaster preparedness.

As part of Intermap's nationwide effort, 65 percent of the contiguous United States has already been collected under the NEXTMap USA program. Data collection is expected to be complete in 2008, with final data processing for the entire country planned to be complete by the end of 2009. The nearly 8-million-square-kilometer NEXTMap USA dataset will include 320 billion elevation postings, and over 5 trillion image pixels creating a  national map that is unprecedented at this level of detail and accuracy.